The weather forecast for tomorrow calls for a couple of afternoon thunderstorms. So, for that matter, does the following day’s forecast.

And the day after.

And the day after.

And the day after.

“It’s been somewhat unusual,” said Gail Hartfield, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Raleigh, referring to a forecast that keeps repeating itself like a scratched 45 rpm record of days gone by.

“But these things do happen.”

For the month of June, there were 8.36 inches of rain recorded at Greensboro’s Piedmont Triad International Airport, the National Weather Service’s closest recording site to Alamance County. The typical rainfall total for the month is 3.87 inches.

Some areas received considerably more rain. On Sunday, an area stretching from around Chapel Hill to Albemarle was inundated with as much as 7 inches of precipitation.

The situation was so bad the Red Cross set up an emergency shelter in Chapel Hill to serve residents displaced by flooding.

Hartfield said the ongoing chance of afternoon and evening showers owes to a weak front that’s pretty much taken up residence over North Carolina. A low pressure system over the Ohio Valley is pulling moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and Florida, combining, Hartfield said, for humid conditions.

“The atmosphere is very damp all the way up,” she said.

So for the foreseeable future, the chance of an afternoon shower will persist.

Max Lloyd is the owner of Grove Winery & Vineyards outside Gibsonville. He said between Saturday and Monday, six-tenths of an inch of rain fell at the winery. But Lloyd lives in Chapel Hill where more than 5 inches of rain were recorded.

“We haven’t had as much rain on this side of the (Haw) river as they’ve had on the other side,” Lloyd said of his business. “We’ve been lucky.”